Celebrating 50 years of art at WWU

Into the Blue—Whale Shark

This piece was created during quarantine as we all spent time dreaming of travel and adventure, while sitting on our couches.

Medium used: Watercolor, Acrylic and Ink
Date created: 2020

Scandi View

One way I find a true sense of calmness through the observation of nature and then taking that peaceful memory and transferring it to canvas my greatest joy is when someone connects with one of these paintings and my work creates a sense of calm in their home as well.

Medium used: Acrylic
Date created: August 2020

More about Kim’s work at artstudiokim.com

Iris Family

9x12” watercolor and pastel study of Irises on 140lb mixed media grey paper.

Peony Passion

6x8” fluid acrylic painting on 140lb mixed media paper inspired by Peonies grown by Carolyn Janke’s in her beautiful garden.

Flower Market Finds

3x4’ essence or abstract painting of a floral arrangement that was made by Kandyce. The painting was created with acrylic paint and pastels on canvas.

Atomic Farming

I created this painting in 100 days. I committed to working on it everyday for those 100 days. The days I was away from home I would draw the houses and trees on paper and glue them on when I got home. Besides the paper it was painted using acrylics. I finished the painting in April of 2019. The title of the piece is Atomic Farming and I put it in a show I had at a small cafe in Portland, Oregon.

Green Armchair

60" x 34" acrylic on canvas (2018)

Contour Series - Cadence #5

This painting is from my Contour Series, which is based on designs from one single line.

Medium used: Acrylic on Canvas 48X60
Date created: 2018

Naramata—Evening Conversation

Medium used: Acrylic paint on stretched canvas.
Dimensions: 42”w x 30”h.
Date created: 2018

Melancholy Yellow

Date created: 2019
Medium used: acrylic

This piece was created to showcase that sadness isn't always a darkness. In the midst of sorrow there can be brightness, it just depends on your perspective.

Walla Walla Blue Mountains Landscape

Medium used: chalk pastel

I enjoy tactile mediums such as pottery, sculpture, knit, and crochet, and chalk pastel is no exception! I love the way the colors blend as the layers build on one another. It is a very forgiving medium with lots of room for trial and error.

The Blue Mountains will always hold a special place in my heart as the backdrop of a very beloved town.

Small Summits
Twig atop Little Moab Trail IV

Medium used: acrylic & pastel on mylar

Available works and commissions at LeahCupino.com

Leah Cupino (2003) with in Helena, MT with her husband Dr. Andrew Cupino (2003) and three boys, Calder 12, Benjamin 9, and Ansel 7. She paints nearly every day at her downtown studio storefront 'The Art Space', holds community courses, and teaches art fundamentals at Carroll College.

Spring Countryside

Medium used: Paper Illustration, Cut paper, 12x12"
Date created: 2021

Paper has long been a favorite medium of mine, now my go-to for creating unique original artwork and greeting cards. With paper illustration, I love the clean edges and bold colors, and the resulting textures are so satisfying.

Shame of the Cross

Medium used: Multimedia
Date created: 2008

Traditional portrayals of Jesus Christ on the Calvary cross are usually visually romanticized and often miss the gritty and brutal reality of a Roman crucifixion. With a modern voice I have tried to strip away some of this veneer and approach the minimalist essence of what the Apostle Paul called “the shame of the cross.” While we must be limited by conjecture, I have tried to move the viewer to see the uncomfortable spectacle that was Golgotha through this painting.

We can say it’s Spring

Medium used: 30x 48 still life study in acrylic, metallics and charcoal
Date created: March 2021

This work is largely abstract and also about a bright color mood in a more hopeful spring season coming out a bit from darker tones I used this past winter under Covid.

Dodger

Medium used: Created with pastels on 24x30 cm PastelMat
Date Created: Feb. 2021

This is a memorial pet portrait of my family’s golden retriever, Dodger, that I created as a gift for my mom. I learned lot’s and had fun drawing his charming portrait.

Abstract work based on sculptural forms

Dates created:
• 2013-2014 for painting & prints
• 1995-2002 for bronze sculptures

Tom Emmerson taught at WWU for 41 years, 1974-2015.

Abstract work based on sculptural forms

Dates created:
• 2013-2014 for painting & prints
• 1995-2002 for bronze sculptures

Tom Emmerson taught at WWU for 41 years, 1974-2015.

Abstract work based on sculptural forms

Dates created:
• 2013-2014 for painting & prints
• 1995-2002 for bronze sculptures

Tom Emmerson taught at WWU for 41 years, 1974-2015.

Terra Cotta Abstract Forms

1979, 1994

Louis Armstrong

Medium used: Acrylic on canvas.
Date created: 2018

Human: Nature

Medium used: Oils
Date created: 2018

This was part of an art show I did called Human:Nature, blending my love of portraits with my love of natural, organic shapes and subjects.

Because You’re Mine

Date created: 2019
Medium used: Found images, Transparency film, string on paper
Dimensions: 11”x14”

My work investigates the individual and collective as it relates to memory, desire and marginalization using ephemeral materials. Found materials allow me to explore the duality between the individual and the collective as it shapes the construction of personal, societal and historical memories. My practice is built on collecting, altering and combining ephemeral materials, thread and unrelated subject matter, which develop into accidental and intentional collaborations. The use of thread in my work represents connectedness, power and fragility. Many cultures and myths use string as a metaphor for life, and is a volatile object that can be cut, broken, tangled, knotted, and stitched. There is grandeur in the simplicity of string to be both powerful and vulnerable. Similarly, life is composed of complex and curious entanglements, cuts and ties between past, present, and future experiences.